RiseUp Egypt-Enabling Wheelers Physically&Socially

Dear all Alhassan Foundation’s friends, believers & supporters,

It’s our pleasure to announce that we have launched the 1^st series of learning basic wheelchair skills for wheelchair users in Egypt & the MENA region who speak Arabic. Soon we will start our one to one training sessions of Occupational Therapy to help wheelchair users and persons who suffer from spinal cord injuries to adapt to their new condition and be physically independent.

Surely we knew that there are several videos on Youtube that offer this service, but it’s in English or other foreign languages. Yet there are many wheelchair users in Egypt and the MENA region only speak Arabic. So we decided to take it upon ourselves to produce this wheelchair basic skills Video tutorials in Arabic to be available for all wheelchair users in this area of the world so we can help them live the life of an active wheelchair user, and protect his/her muscles from being idle. Please check the link below to know more about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bPBX8wox_E&list=PLzyJ9JYjUz04eplHJtfG7tOS9QdltlQQD

With the support of the Ministry of technology & communications in Egypt, We produced and distributed tens of CDs for free to assist wheelchair users to learn how to adapt to their new life more efficiently. Through producing these 27 episodes that every wheelchair user can practice all its featured techniques to be physically independent, and live their life as they want without needing permanent assistance.

These videos and one to one training sessions help wheelchair users be more physically independent, which helps in making them eligible for getting jobs, playing sports, and becoming the best version of themselves.

We would like to thank each and every one of you for your support. We urge you to continue supporting our cause and stay loyal donors to our cause through subscribing to a monthly recurring donation option. That will help wheelchair users in Egypt be more confident and accomplished. Please visit our Facebook page to read other success stories:

https://www.facebook.com/AlhassanFDN/

Thank you for believing in the differently abled. :)

Dear all Alhassan Foundation’s friends, believers & supporters,

Thank you our loyal donor; you helped us launch an awareness campaign to educate wheelchair users in Egypt about Rise Up Occupational Therapy sessions that we are preparing to offer this year. We encouraged all wheelchair users in Egypt to apply and we planned to organize and classify all their information & needs to allocate the proper sessions for them.

We are currently seeking for collaboration & partnership with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in Egypt to Co-sponsor this program so we will be able to offer these occupational therapy session to a wide range of wheelchair users in Egypt from all ages and backgrounds. During the past few months your contribution helped us to prepare for launching an Arabic version of the very impactful book “Life on Wheels”. This book will be as a personal guide for wheelchair users on how to cope with their new life circumstances after their spinal cord injury. It won’t only help those who are recently suffered any mobility issues, but also will help those who were born paraplegic.

We distributed tens of CDs for free to assist wheelchair users to learn how to adapt to their new life efficiently. Through these 27 episodes included in each CD that our beneficiaries hold in their hand, every wheelchair user can practice all these techniques to be physically independent, and live their life as they want without permanent assistance.

When we first announced launching this program on our Facebook page, we noticed high interest in our members’ comments and how they are eager to know more about it and participate in such training. Not only that, but also many of them asked for special requests to manage sessions about certain needs such as how to be able to sit on the wheelchair again after falling or stumbling over any obstacle in the street without needing assistance, and many other suggestions. We promised to manage such sessions and produce episodes about it and add them to the new version of our CD series, but we really want to direct more funds to such initiative that’s why we need your support.
We would like to thank each and every one of you for your support. We urge you to continue supporting our cause and stay loyal donors to our cause through subscribing to a monthly recurring donation option. That will help wheelchair users in Egypt be more confident and accomplished. Please visit our Facebook page to read other success stories:

https://www.facebook.com/AlhassanFDN/

Thank you for believing in the differently abled. :)